Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 11:37:03 -0400
From: "Lawrence Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Toshiba Libretto Floppy Drive


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Subject: Toshiba Libretto Floppy Drive


> Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 15:56:00 +0100
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Toshiba Libretto Floppy Drive
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to work out if the Toshiba supplied PC card floppy disk drive
would
> work in another laptop...?
>
> I've just bought a SONY vaio which is (surprisingly) not supplied with a
> floppy drive.  I wondered if the tiny tosh floppy would work (I was
assuming
> that the PC autodetects the PC card as it would any other PC card device)
so I
> inserted into my vaio and lo and behold it detected.... a Y-D floppy
adapter.
>  Does anyone know if there's a third party driver to make this work?

I think you should be fine with Windows as long as Windows has the driver
(Y-E Data). However, you can not use it as bootup device because the BIOS
does not have the necessary code to recognize the device as Libretto has.




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